“How to Beat Extremism”

William Barber and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove in The Hill:

When the federal appeals court in the capital of the former Confederacy struck down America’s most discriminatory voter suppression law, the judges noted that the bill passed by North Carolina’s 2013 General Assembly and signed by Governor Pat McCrory had targeted African-Americans “with near surgical precision.”

Writing for the New York Times, legal scholar Richard Hasen celebrated that, while the fight is not yet over, this landmark decision ensures fairer elections this fall, dramatically increasing the chances of a Supreme Court appointment that “will very likely seal the fate of voting rights (and much more) for a generation.”
This is no small victory. But it is more than a legal win for voting rights in our time; it is also concrete evidence that moral movement can beat extremism — a story America needs to hear during this presidential election.

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